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I’m pretty sure I saw somewhere that it was borrowed into Latin in ancient times, though perhaps I was wrong. Still, a TNG→Arabic borrowing is nearly as good as
by bradrn 5y ago
I’m pretty sure I saw somewhere that it was borrowed into Latin in ancient times, though perhaps I was wrong. Still, a TNG→Arabic borrowing is nearly as good as a TNG→Latin one.
- ithkuil 5y agoAre we talking about the name of a fruit that comes from the same place where the name was borrowed from? If so, why is that surprising?
- bradrn 5y agoYes, we are. The only surprising thing about this is that one wouldn’t prima facie expect a loan into any European language from a New Guinean language before the Age of Exploration, and this particular word went through more intermediate languages than usual. Other than those features, there’s nothing particularly unusual about this.